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The journey to transition IBM EGL to an open technology began in 2008 and has culminated in our announcement today of the first, completely open source tool for building modern applications with EGL. Eclipse EGL Web Developer Tools version 0.7 provide many of the capabilities found today in our IBM EGL tools, but is built from the ground up on an open , extensible compiler and generator... [More]

We are very pleased to announce the 2011 EGL Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany on April 5 and 6! This year's conference offers a variety of technical sessions, customer experiences, product demonstrations and a comprehensive view of the evolution of EGL technology over the past two years. Whether you are already an EGL user, or you are interested in exploring the power of this emerging programming... [More]

It's been awhile since I gave an update on the EGL open source project. As many of you know, at the Rational conference in June, IBM and 7 partners announced plans to create an open source project for the EGL language, compilers, and subset of tools and generators on Eclipse ( read the proposal ). For many of you that have been around EGL for awhile, you know this is a big thing. Besides getting... [More]

For those of you who are following the EGL open source project on Eclipse (you may have read about it in an earlier EGL Cafe blog The open era for EGL begins today ), we're excited to announce the availability of our second incubator release, EGL Web Developer Tools 0.8. In this release, we have made a lot of progress in the areas of generator and debugger extensibility, optimization of the... [More]

Starting in Rational Business Developer version 8.0.1, the Project Interchange Format (PIF) import/export wizard has been replaced by existing Eclipse Import and Export wizards. You can use these wizards to export EGL projects to an archive file and import EGL projects from an existing PIF or archive file. To export an EGL project, use the Export Archive File wizard as follows: Right click on the... [More]

A new step-by-step tutorial ( Create a mortgage portal with EGL Rich UI ) has been added to the Rational Business Developer (RBD) version 8 Information Center, and will also appear automatically in the RBD help if you have the option to "include remote help" enabled in your preferences (Windows > Preferences > Help > Content). This tutorial was originally written for EGL... [More]